http://www.economist.com/business/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=822234
A LESS tenacious company might have cancelled the event. But not Microsoft,
the world's largest software company. On October 25th, it will release the
new version of its flagship computer operating system, Windows XP, at a
splashy launch in a theatre in New York. “We want this event to help remind
the world that New York still represents strength and determination,” Bill
Gates, Microsoft's founder and chief software architect, said recently.
Yet more than anything, Microsoft wants to remind the world that it too is
back. It has been through years of internal squabbling and fighting to
catch up with the Internet—and, most distracting of all, a long and messy
antitrust trial that remains unresolved (although Microsoft has at least
now escaped the threat of a break-up). Windows XP is certainly the right
product to make that point. Even inveterate trashers of Microsoft's
software have been pleasantly surprised. Windows XP is the first consumer
version of the 15-year-old program in which crashing does not seem to come
as a standard feature.
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